In a message of 17 Dec 97 at 22:49:01 Blair Thompson (1:109/621.0) wrote
To me (2:255/126.6) about Hi-fi stereo vcrs ... 
[Nicam]
 BT>   Uh, is NICAM a British brand name? I'm not familiar with the word.
 BT> Though I haven't used it for this purpose, I have a Sony Beta hi-fi
 BT> VCR, which has an input on the back for a digitial signal. All I need
 BT> is an outboard A/D converter.
 BT>   Even old entry-level Betas could take digital inputs.
 BT>   Blair
NICAM as far as I know is only in the UK (Although I may be wrong!)
It is a digital audio signal transmitted with the video signal, that means
all five (wow!) of our TV channels! have CD quality stereo sound.
But both my VCR's only record in Analogue so if you record something from
this source and play it back it's supposed to be degraded (probably is)
but so little that you can actually tell the difference as the high S/N
ratio is kept and 20Hz - 20KHz - response is kept.
Cheers & Merry Christmas from Nick.
Message written by Nick Blundell - Merry christmas!
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